The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature

by Malcolm Budd
The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature
Author: Malcolm Budd
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2005-11-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199286997
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The aesthetics of nature has over the last few decades become an intense focus of philosophical reflection, as it has been ever more widely recognised that it is not a mere appendage to the aesthetics of art. Everyone delights in the beauty of flowers, and some are thrilled by the immensity of mountains or of the night sky. But what is involved in serious aesthetic appreciation of the natural world? Malcolm Budd presents four interlinked studies in the aesthetics of nature, approaching the subject from a variety of angles. As well as developing Budd's own original ideas, the book provides a comprehensive treatment of Kant's classic aesthetics of nature, and an encyclopaedic critical survey of recent literature on the subject.

Aesthetics and the Environment

by Allen Carlson
Aesthetics and the Environment
Author: Allen Carlson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780415301053
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This books presents fresh and fascinating insights into our interpretation of the environment and shows how our aesthetic experience encompasses nature rather than art.

The Aesthetics of Natural Environments

by Allen Carlson
The Aesthetics of Natural Environments
Author: Allen Carlson
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2004-02-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781551114705
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The Aesthetics of Natural Environments is a collection of essays investigating philosophical and aesthetics issues that arise in our appreciation of natural environments. The introduction gives an historical and conceptual overview of the rapidly developing field of study known as environmental aesthetics. The essays consist of classic pieces as well as new contributions by some of the most prominent individuals now working in the field and range from theoretical to applied approaches. The topics covered include the nature and value of natural beauty, the relationship between art appreciation and nature appreciation, the role of knowledge in the aesthetic appreciation of nature, the importance of environmental participation to the appreciation of environments, and the connections between the aesthetic appreciation of nature and our ethical obligations concerning its maintenance and preservation. This volume is for scholars and students focussed on nature, landscapes, and environments, individuals in areas such as aesthetics, environmental ethics, geography, environmental studies, landscape architecture, landscape ecology, and the planning and design disciplines. It is also for any reader interested in and concerned about the aesthetic quality of the world in which we live.

Aesthetics and Nature

by Glenn Parsons
Aesthetics and Nature
Author: Glenn Parsons
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2008-11-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0826496768
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Part of the Continuum Aesthetics series, this book addresses all the central issues in the aesthetics of nature.

Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts

by Salim Kemal
Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts
Author: Salim Kemal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521558549
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A distinguished group of scholars here probes the complex structure of aesthetic responses to nature in a discussion enriched with insights from art history, literary criticism, geography and philosophy. Exploring the interrelation among nature, beauty and art, they show that natural beauty is impregnated with concepts derived from the arts and from particular accounts of nature. The distinction and relation between art and nature are questioned, and the volume culminates in philosophical studies of the role of scientific understanding, engagement and appreciation in aesthetics.

Aesthetics of the Natural Environment

by Emily Brady
Aesthetics of the Natural Environment
Author: Emily Brady
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1474465382
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Aesthetic experience is one of the fundamental ways that we develop a relationship to our natural surroundings. Emily Brady provides a comprehensive study of this type of experience and the central philosophical issues related to it, developing her own original theory of aesthetic appreciation of nature. She provides useful background to the current debate and an up-to-date critical appraisal of contemporary theories.

Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism

by Allen Carlson
Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism
Author: Allen Carlson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2008
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780231138864
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Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty addresses the complex relationships between aesthetic appreciation and environmental issues and emphasizes the valuable contribution that environmental aesthetics can make to environmentalism. Allen Carlson, a pioneer in environmental aesthetics, and Sheila Lintott, who has published widely in aesthetics, combine important historical essays on the appreciation of nature with the best contemporary research in the field. They begin with the scientific, artistic, and aesthetic foundations of current environmental beliefs and attitudes. Then they offer views on the conceptualization of nature and the various debates on how to properly and respectfully appreciate nature. The book introduces positive aesthetics, the belief that everything in nature is essentially beautiful, even the devastation caused by earthquakes or floods, and the essays in the final section explicitly bring together aesthetics, ethics, and environmentalism to explore the ways in which each might affect the others. Book jacket.

Aesthetic Essays

by Malcolm Budd
Aesthetic Essays
Author: Malcolm Budd
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2008-11-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191565032
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The book brings together a selection of Malcolm Budd's essays in aesthetics. A number of the essays are aimed at the abstract heart of aesthetics, attempting to solve a cluster of the most important issues in aesthetics which are not specific to particular art forms. These include the nature and proper scope of the aesthetic, the intersubjective validity of aesthetic judgements, the correct understanding of aesthetic judgements expressed through metaphors, aesthetic realism versus anti-realism, the character of aesthetic pleasure and aesthetic value, the aim of art and the artistic expression of emotion. Other essays are focussed on central issues in the aesthetics of particular art forms: two engage with the most fundamental issue in the aesthetics of music, the question of the correct conception of the phenomenology of the experience of listening to music with understanding; and two consider the nature of pictorial representation, one examining certain well-known views, the other articulating an alternative conception of seeing a picture as a depiction of a certain state of affairs. The final essay in the volume is a comprehensive reconstruction and critical examination of Wittgenstein's aesthetics, both early and late.

Nature and Landscape

by Allen Carlson
Nature and Landscape
Author: Allen Carlson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2009
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231140401
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The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but also human-made and human-modified landscapes. Nature and Landscape is an important introduction to this rapidly growing area of aesthetic understanding and appreciation. Allen Carlson begins by tracing the development of the field's historical background, and then surveys contemporary positions on the aesthetics of nature, such as scientific cognitivism, which holds that certain kinds of scientific knowledge are necessary for a full appreciation of natural environments. Carlson next turns to environments that have been created or changed by humans and the dilemmas that are posed by the appreciation of such landscapes. He examines how to aesthetically appreciate a variety of urban and rural landscapes and concludes with a discussion of whether there is, in general, a correct way to aesthetically experience the environment.